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Nanotechnology, the mysterious Casimir Force, and interstellar spaceships
Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2008 @ 14:41:12 UTC by vlad
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(Nanowerk Spotlight) Travel through wormholes, time machines
and hovering landspeeders are the stuff of science fiction novels.
Nevertheless, scientists have suggested that the quantum mechanics of
something called the Casimir effect can be used to produce a
locally mass-negative region of space-time, a phenomenon that
theoretically could be used to stabilize a wormhole to allow faster
than light travel ("Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition"). For many years the Casimir effect was little more than a theoretical curiosity.
With the advances in micro- and nanotechnology and
the fact that the Casimir force affects nanoscale devices such as NEMS,
research in detecting and manipulating this mysterious force has
generated substantial interest.
Now, the secretive DARPA,
a research agency of the U.S. Department of Defense that often dabbles
in far-out technologies – and that also brought us the Internet's
predecessor ARPANET – is soliciting innovative research proposals in
the area of Casimir Effect Enhancement (Solicitation number DARPA-BAA-08-59. ... As it now turns out, this is becoming a serious
research area with DARPA being interested in funding approaches that
can lead to the ability to manipulate Casimir forces.
Ok, so what about those interstellar spaceships? In 1996, NASA actually started a program called Breakthrough Propulsion Physics
– now practically dormant due to lack of funding – that looked at
concepts like space drives and faster-than-light travel, the kind of
breakthroughs that would make interstellar travel practical.
The basic idea is that if one could exploit the fact that vacuum is an
energy reservoir, thanks to zero-point energy, future space travelers
would have access to a limitless energy source. The only thing they
need, of course, is some kind of propulsion system that harvests the
required energy from the vacuum. That this is not totally crazy was
demonstrated in a 1984 paper ("Extracting electrical energy from the vacuum by cohesion of charged foliated conductors").
Serious research efforts are being made in various laboratories to
harness the Casimir and related effects for vacuum energy conversion. ...
Full article By Michael Berger: http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=7337.php
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Re: Nanotechnology, the mysterious Casimir Force, and interstellar spaceships (Score: 1) by nanotech on Saturday, September 20, 2008 @ 20:16:36 UTC (User Info | Send a Message) | THIS IS EXACTLY What people such as Electrodynacat and myself have been speaking of: Nanotech and the ZPE. There is a connection in that size range.
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Re: Nanotechnology, the mysterious Casimir Force, and interstellar spaceships (Score: 1) by Prophmaji on Monday, September 22, 2008 @ 07:22:04 UTC (User Info | Send a Message) | When Tesla ran his 'circular' plasma devices and his 'circular fluid' rotational pump devices..the effect was the same. Except on a level and scale that was insanely greater with regards to capacity, volume, mass and effect.
Let's see if you can figure out what the 'effect' is. What this tiny Casimir force is and why Tesla was doing exactly the same thing, but on a far grander scale.
Gravitation and mass are a leftover of the angular entry or energetic angular entry point of the given 'atomic' structure, or ''wave/particle' of these highly energetic 2-d stress fields...as a comparison to other vibrational aspects, or 'wave/particles'.
So..3-d reality is.. the 'grouped' or specific idea of a 'layer' or specific angular point that is a result of..the meeting of these infinitely huge 2-d stress fields and their meeting point. They oscillate in their two possible ways..ie, value and direction..and the result (angular component) of their meeting point is... this 3-d offshoot we like to call reality.
Now..what happens when you spin this 3-d stuff, at the 'atomic' (atom to atom level) level?
Relativity..that is what happens. Time, gravitation, mass, etc. That is the differential result.
What is gravitation?
Gravitation is the result of the earths field. The differential. Gravity is a polarized oriented gradient. At least on the earth.
Now..what happens when you rotate fluids? Structures that are 'atomically' fluidic?
This Casimir force, is what happens.
Gravity, time, mass, casimir.
Same-same.
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Re: Nanotechnology, the mysterious Casimir Force, and interstellar spaceships (Score: 1) by Prophmaji on Monday, September 22, 2008 @ 07:47:44 UTC (User Info | Send a Message) | This goes everywhere.
Maxwell's FULL equations, expressed in Quaternions, with the residual angular components that where asymmetrical..explained exactly this. Once again..Lorentz-a J.P. Morgan employee, removes the asymmetricality. So does Heaviside.
This explains Hutchison, vortex behaviour, and all those rotational devices that 'sort of' work, as they are using 'aggregate mass' calculations due to the constricted math, and they don't 'get it' that the aspect they look for is based on the quantum or particle-to-particle interactions to get the desired effect. Massive polarized states of energy like giant coils will only create the effect in minute ways, not in the gross and powerful ways that a completely fluidic consideration can and WILL.
Once you see that the 'atom to atom' effect as a differential is the real issue and concern, you will see that it can and does work.
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Re: Nanotechnology, the mysterious Casimir Force, and interstellar spaceships (Score: 1) by Prophmaji on Monday, September 22, 2008 @ 08:01:56 UTC (User Info | Send a Message) | If you take a conductive salt water mass or similar.. rotate it in a vortex..and put an electrode in the center..and an electrode on the outer edge..and then CHARGE that rotating mass..what do you get?
You get a gravitational differential, is what.
Orient it properly..and you are off the surface of the earth.
Remember Tesla's fabled 'personal flying platform?' Huh? Neat, wasn't it. Now you know.
Kinda explains the limited Searl effect, don't it?
Oh. Nice little bit of molecular dissolution, if you decide to go in that direction instead.
These are cheap experiments guys!
Get to it!!!
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Re: Nanotechnology, the mysterious Casimir Force, and interstellar spaceships (Score: 1) by Prophmaji on Monday, September 22, 2008 @ 08:16:03 UTC (User Info | Send a Message) | And..to add..that if you use the resonant characteristics..on and of a rotating charged fluidic mass..you can lift a house..with like..5 watts.
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Re: Nanotechnology, the mysterious Casimir Force, and interstellar spaceships (Score: 1) by nanotech on Monday, September 22, 2008 @ 09:42:05 UTC (User Info | Send a Message) | All I can say is WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :) :) :)
I wish I had the know how to build something like this, I am not very mechanically apt =(
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Casimir effects in the real world (Score: 1) by vlad on Sunday, November 02, 2008 @ 21:39:53 UTC (User Info | Send a Message) http://www.zpenergy.com | Quantum fluctuations in the electromagnetic field give rise to
Casimir forces between two bulk materials (and the related
Casimir-Polder force, which occurs between an atom and a surface). In
both cases, the magnitude and sign of the force depend on the
electromagnetic properties of the materials. However, one has to be
careful how the effects of finite conductivity are introduced into
existing theory.
Two papers appearing in Physical Review Letters
tackle this problem for the Casimir and Casimir-Polder forces. Lev
Pitaevskii, affiliated with both the University of Trento in Italy and
the Kapitza Institute in Moscow, calculates the Casimir-Polder force
between an atom and a dielectric surface for quasistatic electric
fields. In particular, his calculations extend between the two limits
where the surface is a good metal and a good insulator. Diego Dalvit of
Los Alamos National Laboratory and Steve Lamoreaux of Yale University
explore similar limits for both the Casimir and Casimir-Polder forces,
but include the frequency dependence of the electric fields.
Both
papers elegantly express the results in terms of measurable materials
properties. As cleverly designed experiments are exploring the ways in
which temperature, geometry, and charge fluctuations affect Casimir
forces, these calculations will certainly be tested. – Jessica Thomas
Source: http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.163202 [physics.aps.org]
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Re: Casimir effects in the real world (Score: 1) by NAG on Monday, November 03, 2008 @ 17:26:30 UTC (User Info | Send a Message) http://www.exec-eng.com | Vlad
DARPA has been working on ZP Energy going on 10+ years now and they see at least another 50 years before their is any kind of battery that would be in production to the public and a low energy battery at that.
All ideas are great, getting that idea into production is the hard part.
If you can't reproduce and build it for CHEEP then most of the time your spinning you wheels.
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